Charles Durkee

Charles Durkee (10 December 1805-14 January 1870) was a member of the US House of Representatives (FS-WI 1) from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding William P. Lynde and preceding Daniel Wells Jr.), a US Senator (R) from 4 March 1855 to 3 March 1861 (succeeding Isaac P. Walker and preceding Timothy Howe), and Governor of the Utah Territory from 30 September 1865 to 9 January 1869 (succeeding James Duane Doty and preceding John Shaffer).

Biography
Charles Durkee was born in Royalton, Vermont in 1805, and he became a merchant and moved to Wisconsin in 1836. There, he became involved in agriculture and lumbering, and he was a founder of the town of Southport (now Kenosha). He served in the territorial legislature before serving in the US House of Representatives as a Free Soiler and in the US Senate as a Republican. He went on to serve as Governor of the Utah Territory from 1865 until his resignation in 1869 due to ill health, and he died in Omaha, Nebraska in 1870 while returning home.